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"The March FOMC meeting will go down in history as the one in which the committee saw the light," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont, a dogged critic last year of the Fed's easy policy stance. "This is a group that has got some urgency. They may view this as their challenge to sustain the legacy of the central bankers that tamed inflation," said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust, in an interview. For the first time in memory, the Fed has indicated they are prepared to raise rates above the neutral rate of interest. If the...

The dramatic saga of Jussie Smollett continues. Less than a week after his sentencing, an appeals court ruled that the actor is to be released from jail during his appeal. He had initially been sentenced by Judge James Linn to 30 months felony probation, the first 150 days of which Smollett was to spend in the Cook County Jail, restitution in the amount of $120,106, and a fine of $25,000, after a jury found him guilty of a hate crime hoax last December, as Spencer covered last Thursday. Smollet does not even have to put any money down yet for...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told German MPs that a new type of Berlin Wall is being built, dividing Europe between freedom and oppression. He thanked Germany for its support during Russia's invasion. But it was uncomfortable listening for many MPs as he criticised German energy policy and business interests for contributing to that wall of division. Over the past week, Mr Zelensky has given a master class in how to pitch his message to allies.

Another state is weighing in on abortion law ahead of the United States Supreme Court’s decision on Roe v. Wade, with Kentucky the latest to advance legislation to protect the unborn by prohibiting the procedure after 15 weeks gestation. Senate Bill 321 is modeled after the Mississippi law under review by the high court. It now advances to the state’s House.

Many know this story, but I’d like to summarize it as succinctly as possible, using only primary and establishment media sources in hopes that this article may be persuasive and shareable to friends/family of all politics. The goal is not to distract from Ukrainian suffering but to inform US citizens of how their leaders often engage in harmful foreign policy so that we may refrain from electing such leaders in the future.

Remember when it was reported last week by Politico that the New York Times is "loath to be seen as reacting" to the Project Veritas videos in which Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg laughed at the drama queen hysteria of several of his colleagues over the supposed mental duress they supposedly suffered on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol building?Unfortunately for the Times, it appears that Project Veritas and James O'Keefe now live in every waking (and perhaps sleeping) thought of the Times staffers as revealed by a memo, parts of which were reported on by Tuesday's Politico Playbook PM.The paranoid...

A British operative was inserted into President Trump’s White House in an effort to tarnish President Trump’s image and then derail the 2020 Election audit efforts. We’ve previously reported that an individual named Don Berlin inserted a document into President Trump’s inner circle days before Jan 6 in an effort to set President Trump up for perceived insurrection. A summary of this document was then scooped up by the Jan 6 committee and shared with multiple media outlets in an attempt to claim he attempted an insurrection after the 2020 Election steal. We now know that Berlin wasn’t alone. Another...

A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce internal records related to its decision to prosecute Steve Bannon, a win for the former Trump adviser, who maintains that he had a sound legal basis for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House’s Jan. 6 select committee. U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols said Bannon’s team should be provided with Justice Department “statements or writings” that square the decision to charge Bannon with contempt of Congress with long-standing department legal opinions that say former presidential advisers are largely immune from congressional subpoenas. Prosecutors had argued during a...

Joe Biden is a living, breathing head of lettuce. The country knows it. Putin knows it. Xi knows it. Even his wife knows that he’s an empty suit. The media is supposed to be the watchdog but with few exceptions, it doesn’t cover him; it covers for him, picking up the droppings he leaves. The media makes unending excuses for his incoherence, blithering nonsense, and feckless policies. Why employ TikTokers when you have compliant media? Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer wrote the below, and for some reason didn’t immediately burst into flames. Credit where credit is due: It’s hard to...

A comprehensive report about the ongoing federal probe into Hunter Biden’s tax filings published by the New York Times on Wednesday night confirmed the existence of the first son’s infamous laptop. In October 2020, The Post exclusively reported on the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop that he ditched at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019. The laptop’s hard drive contained a trove of emails, text messages, photos and financial documents between Hunter Biden, his family and business associates — detailing how the president’s son used his political leverage in his overseas business dealings. The repair shop owner reported the...

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has garnered much praise over the past few weeks for his strong leading of the Ukrainians amid invasion from Russia and his refusal to go into hiding despite Russian assassination attempts. The now seemingly famous line is, “I need Ammunition, not a ride.” Ukraine is in great need of support. Russia is mercilessly attacking them under the dark and scheming leadership of an emboldened Vladimir Putin bent on war. Respect for Zelenskyy’s actions was and is warranted. As a Christian, seeing a leader take a hands-on approach in war has brought to mind Biblical accounts of kings accompanying...

When you see corporate outlets rushing us into war in Europe with sensational stories and flat-out dishonest polling, think twice. The night of Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine sat at anchor in Havana, Cuba. A few minutes after 9 p.m., the nightly ritual of “Taps” from Fifer C. H. Newton’s bugle descended over the ship. Some half an hour later, the forward end of the ship rose suddenly above the water. “Along the pier, passersby could hear a rumbling explosion,” detailed author Tom Miller. “Within seconds, another eruption — this one deafening and massive — splintered the bow,...

Lauro Cavazos, the United States secretary of education from 1988 to 1990 under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and the nation’s first Latino to serve in a cabinet post, died on Tuesday. He was 95. Texas Tech University, where he served as president, confirmed his death. A Texas ranch foreman’s son and a sixth-generation Mexican American, Dr. Cavazos, after an academic career, was Reagan’s education secretary for only four months before being reappointed by Bush, the professed “education president,” to his cabinet in early 1989.

A New York state college invited a convicted cop-killer to speak about race and justice while describing him as a former "political prisoner" and "loving human being" after his role in the ambush murders of two NYPD officers and another shootout with police in California. The College at Brockport, State University of New York, is hosting an event titled, "History of Black Resistance, U.S. Political Prisoners & Genocide: A Conversation with Jalil Muntaqim." Muntaqim, formerly known as Anthony Bottom, was among a group of Black Liberation Army radicals who assassinated two New York City police officers in 1971, Waverly Jones...

A large fleet of VIP transport aircraft belonging to the Russian Special Flight Detachment “Rossiya” took off from Moscow Vnukovo Airport (VKO) in the early hours of March 17, 2022. The detachment is tasked with transporting Russian government officials. According to Planespotters data, it operates 29 aircraft, most of which are Russian-made Tupolev Tu-214, Ilyushin Il-96 and Sukhoi Superjet 100. At least 10 of these aircraft have been observed taking off from VKO starting at 8:48 AM MSK (5:48 GMT) and heading Eastwards on various flight paths. The convoy was first noticed by Twitter user Manu Gomez, and independently confirmed...

Swedish farmers may be forced to reduce their harvests by as much as half due to a shortage of manure and fertilizers caused by the conflict in Ukraine and associated sanctions war. Sweden, which is highly dependent on the import of manure since production all but ceased in the 2000s, could be facing major agricultural issues due to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, as Sweden imports between 15 to 20 per cent of its manure from Russia. Russia is also an important source of phosphorus and potassium, key ingredients in the production of fertilizers, and with sanctions and supply...

This is 2 mins & 9sec. It's ominous and reminiscent of Stalin and Hitler.

---SNIP--- Needless to say, this is not the “moment of Kamala Harris’ arrival” that CNN’s Chris Cillizza was thirsting for. Thankfully, the disastrous trip is over but unfortunately, that means she’s back here in the United States further making a mockery of the office of the Vice President with the flubs and disjointed statements still freely flowing. Though it’s depressing to think about the fact that we will have to endure roughly at least two and a half more years of this, one good thing to come out of the various KamalaSpeak debacles (and there have been MANY) is the...

The traditional St. Patrick’s Day greening of the Chicago river resumed this year, after being on cootie hiatus for the past 2 years.Aside from the past two, Chicago’s river has been died green (ironically, with orange dye) every year since 1962 when Major Daley the First made it a thing. I attended the parade and festivities several times in my yute; it was a fine city in those days. But speaking of orange, I found this little gem yesterday: via What IrksOr actually Team Green (The Biden Plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice). As the man said...

The Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines are mass murder weapons, deadlier than guns, cannons and tanks combined. This surfaced after an analysis of figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database revealed that 61,000 people, supposedly in the prime of their life, ages 25-44, died of vaccine-related causes in the U.S. in the fall and winter of 2021. Edward Dowd, a former BlackRock portfolio manager, made the appalling revelation during the March 10 episode of “The Alex Jones Show.” VIDEO AT LINK................. According to Dowd, an investment adviser on Wall Street, an insurance industry expert who is part...